The law promoted by Congresswoman María del Carmen Alva was made official, which prohibits carrying out domestic activities during the working day.
The Executive Branch published a series of modifications to the teleworking law —promoted in Congress by Maricarmen Alva—, which, among its main points, puts a series of restrictions on the execution of particular activities during the working day.
In detail, The teleworker is prohibited from leaving his usual place where he carries out his activities and focusing on other particular activities, but if he does so, he must justify them.
Failure to provide justification would be a serious disciplinary offence and could be grounds for initiating disciplinary and sanctioning proceedings, as appropriate, which may result in the automatic reversal of teleworking.
Lawyer Willman Meléndez emphasized to La República that this is not a cause for dismissal, but rather, only the culmination of the teleworker status, even so, it can be interpreted as a mechanism that violates labor flexibility.
Along these lines, labor lawyer Jorge Toyama has also emphasized in media such as Canal N that the modification to the law goes against the flexible current of teleworking, to which the congresswoman Alva has argued that a person “is paid to work and not to do domestic things.”
More changes to the teleworking law
The law specifies that if the employee changes his or her usual place of teleworking, he or she must notify his or her employer five days in advance, unless there is a duly justified reason.
Furthermore, time not worked by the teleworker due to power outages or lack of internet cannot be a reason for a deduction in remuneration or subject to subsequent recovery.
Source: Larepublica
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